Visionary Company

Francesca Bratton is a Senior Lecturer in American Literature in the Department of English at Uppsala University. She has published articles and reviews in English, PN Review, Notes & Queries and Year’s Work In English Studies. In 2013-14 she was a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction ‘Imagist in Amber’: Post-Decadent Poetry and Greenwich Village ‘Are you Futuristic or are you not?’: Adversarial Editing and European Avant-Gardes ‘Champion Mixed Metaphors’: Graduating to The Dial and Poetry‘A Scattered Chapter’: Publishing The Bridge ‘They have been lost’: A Year in Mexico City Epilogue: ‘The Shelley of my age’: Hart Crane’s Afterlives Bibliography Appendix:An overview of Crane’s periodical publishers Timeline of Crane’s periodical publications Timeline of Crane’s periodical rejections

Visionary Company is an academic book, but it reads better than most and can profitably be enjoyed by anyone interested in Crane’s work, periodical culture, modernism, or all of these. It’s impeccably documented and draws capaciously from a wide variety of sources. With every page the reader shares the rewards of Bratton’s trawling through files and folders in dusty archives to bring this all to life again – and Crane himself, too.